HAMMERING on the locked holiday hire car, Ben Gander yelled at his wife to open up and let him hold their little daughter.
But as a deranged victim of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the young father did not just want a cuddle.

He believed that only by touching baby Freya would he prevent her disappearing like Madeleine McCann, who had vanished three months before the Ganders' trip to France in 2007.

With the tragedy playing on Ben's mind, he even contemplated smashing the car window to get inside.

But his violent antics soon drew a crowd to the lay-by near Biarritz where the family had hastily pulled over, and an ambulance was called to rush the troubled Brit to hospital.

It took four months of psychiatric care before Ben fully recovered from the OCD rituals that plagued him up to ten hours a day, left him an emotional wreck and even drove him to the brink of suicide.